SOLUTION: Emy has 200 pesos. She wants to buy three different fruits. An apple cost 25 pesos. An orange cost 15 pesos and a pear cost 20 pesos. If she wants to spend all her money , what is
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Question 979582: Emy has 200 pesos. She wants to buy three different fruits. An apple cost 25 pesos. An orange cost 15 pesos and a pear cost 20 pesos. If she wants to spend all her money , what is the most number of oranges that she can buy?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Another way to ask the question is:
What is the LEAST number of apples
and pears she can buy and have the
remainder of the money EVENLY
divisible by pesos/orange
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1 apple & 1 pear:
NOT evenly disible by
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2 apples & 1 pear:
NOt evenly divisible by
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1 apple & 2 pears:
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With $135 left after buying 1 apple
& 2 pears, she can buy 9 oranges
which is the most she can buy
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